Gigi

Description

Presented by The Iowa City Community Theatre.

Based on Colette’s novel and the 1959 motion picture with a score by Lerner and Loewe (My Fair Lady, Camelot), GIGI transports the audience to the elegant atmosphere of turn-of-the (twentieth) -century Paris. The show is a melodic, wittily literate delight blessed with such songs as the now-infamous (and very politically incorrect) “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” the tart “I Remember it Well,” anticipating Sondheim in its wry melancholy as two former lovers look back on different versions of the same past, and the ebullient “The Night They Invented Champagne.”